/lit/ - Literature

>>23060100
>What does he disagree with regarding Aristotle
Well, Aristotle didn't think that potentiality was separate from its inherence within matter as a necessary consequence of the constituents of the matter itself being arranged in such a way as to follow laws of which it is subject across time.

A seed has the potential to grow into a tree, yes? Aristotle would say that the tree to be is not as real as the seed from which it could grow. Plato and Peirce believe that the future tree is just as real as the seed, not simply because time produces transformation of reality into the potentiality but also because what could be shares the same metaphysical substance as what is.

Peirce happened to agree with Plato over Aristotle that the "celestial" realm has an equivalent reality value to that of what we would classically denote "reality" or "actuality" in Aristotle's language. His argument was never fleshed out properly, and I'm personally working on progressing it. I would say that potentiality can be split into four sub-classes which I haven't named as of yet.

The first deals with possible potential, the second impossible potential, the third necessary potential, and the fourth random potential.

Yeah, philosophy as a discipline is pretty retarded nowadays.

However, people capable of just stem and those who are capable of stem and philosophy are objective intellectually superior.

>>22929749
What makes you think she isn't planning on manipulating you right back, you idiot.

>>22904717
Good question.

You'd want to study Jung if you wish to comprehend the underlying symbolic grammar of what I'm about to say, but you'll probably agree it "clicks" for you.

Narcissists have a very deep, very secret, very intense fascination with death. This is due to their unconscious processes recognizing the necessity for the sacrifice of the immature ego's present configuration as a means of overcoming a stunted and unbalanced attitude towards life.

The fact that your sexual fantasies involve extinction and death is in no way unique or unusual for narcissists. How that manifests within the fantasy is unique to your personal psychology, but it absolutely always does manifest.

I mean, look at what you're describing? A giant woman (the mother from the infants perspective) is causing mass destruction and death, possibly even extinction of all life (the libido, Eros, sex drive, etc.), through the very act of her existence (a mother who is deeply unconscious of her primal drives and her role as custodian of the development and security of the infant libido).

My guess is that your mother enticed you into the covert emotionally incestuous relationship but something, perhaps a new husband or male partner or an affair, interrupted the natural course of its development.

>>13496811
>songs

What are some essential short story collections?

Can someone please clarify the distinction between modern and postmodern literary techniques?

>>9630437
Men and women are fundamentally different.

You're basically asking how to make water scary to a fish.